Turkey Purge

A group of homophobic people allegedly from a nationalist youth movement called “Köklü Değişim” [Radical Change] on Sunday attacked tens of people attending the Mersin Pride Parade to show their support for sexual and gender diversity. Third time in its history, Mersin’s LGBT community dressed in rainbow attire and culminated with a rally in gay-friendly Mersin […]

The Qatari police have detained five members of a Turkish family who are linked to the Gülen movement while the family was on their way to South Africa, yenihamle.com news website reported on Monday. The detained individuals are members of the Bayındır family, businessman father Muhammed, mother Fadime and daughters Eslem, Kübra and Feyza. The

The father of a 21-year-old university student who died after jumping off a balcony due to depression over her father’s imprisonment has been denied permission by a prosecutor to attend his daughter’s funeral. A fourth year student at the Istanbul-based Boğaziçi University’s faculty of education, Tuğçe Ölçer jumped to her death from the balcony of

A group of police officers reportedly await outside Private Yalova Hospital in order to detain a woman who had given birth several hours earlier, according to tweets posted by the woman’s family members. Havva Hamamcıoğlu, whose husband was recently detained by police over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, gave birth late on June 10,

A Turkish health worker has been given 6 years, 6 months and 22 days prison sentence over alleged membership to Turkey’s Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, Ali İhsan P., who was working as a health worker at

At least thirty-nine civilians, including doctors, imams and housewives, have been detained by police in six major Turkish provinces over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. In Samsun, 15 teachers, 1 doctor, 1 shopkeeper and 1 former employee of now-closed Gülen-affiliated

Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government public speaker and columnist, said in a video message posted on social media on Friday that people should gather in front of Silivri Prison, which mainly hosts people jailed over links to the Gülen movement, and set it on fire, similar to the Madımak Hotel in Sivas when an angry mob

21-year-old university student Tuğçe Ölçer died after jumping off a balcony as she was depressed in the face of her father’s imprisonment, according to media. A fourth-grade at the Istanbul-based Bogazici University’s Faculty of Education, Ölçer jumped to her death from her family house’s balcony in Buca, Izmir on Saturday. Local media reported that Ölçer